On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Volodya <Volodya at 
whengendarmesleeps.org>wrote:

> Pseudonymity is a feature when a user wants that. And it is a bug when one
> wants
> something else.


No, giving someone an additional ability is never a "bug", if they don't
like it they don't have to use it.


> But i see that what is desired is to keep Freetalk "pure".
>

I have no idea what your definition of "pure" is, or why you think it is
desirable.  Anonymous systems that lack pseudonymity are a *lot* less
useful.


> > Pseudonymity is a feature, not a bug.  If you don't like it just create a
> new
> > identity every time.
>
> I have already explained why creating a new identity each time is
> infeasible.
>

Yeah, because they'd need to solve captchas every time.  But if you expect
to have any hope of preventing spam in a system that lacks pseudonymity
you'd need to do something like that anyway.

You're tilting at windmills.

Ian.

-- 
Ian Clarke
Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/
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